concordance
noun
con·cor·dance
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Definition of concordance
Examples of concordance in a Sentence
There is little concordance between the two studies.
a concordance of Shakespeare's plays
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This concordance between the visual and the electrical in graphene almost seems to be an example of life imitating art right down to the quantum level. — Quanta Magazine, "When Magic Is Seen in Twisted Graphene, That’s a Moiré," 20 June 2019 The idea of your genitals and your mind operating separately from each other is a concept called genital non-concordance. — Vanessa Marin, Allure, "Ask a Sex Therapist: Why Is My Vagina Always So Dry During Sex?," 11 Oct. 2018 But even if environmental activists and the government reach some kind of concordance on how to reduce fire risks, the challenge ahead is immense. — Umair Irfan, Vox, "Ryan Zinke blamed environmentalists for California’s massive wildfires. Again.," 21 Nov. 2018 A federal waiver allowed the tribes to do some ceremonial fishing—essentially just taking a small catch in concordance with the treaty rights—but that rankled many non-Indians. — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, "Medicine Creek, the Treaty That Set the Stage for Standing Rock," 9 June 2017 Early biblical concordances — alphabetical indexes of words in the Bible, along with their context — allowed for some of the same types of analyses found in modern-day textual data-crunching. — Samuel Arbesman, WIRED, "Reducing the Hype Around Big Data," 20 Aug. 2013 One area that has lagged behind is what researchers calls dyadic sleep, or sleep concordance. — Bruce Feiler, New York Times, "NYT Living Newsletter," 9 Jan. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'concordance.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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concordance
noun
English Language Learners Definition of concordance
formal
: a state in which things agree and do not conflict with each other
: an alphabetical list of all of the words in a book or in a set of works written by an author
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